User Experience SIG - April 8, 2026

Contributing UX SIG
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2026-04-08T15:00:00Z

Apr 8, 2026

  • Attending
    • Mark Waite
    • Jan Faracik
    • I Shaan
  • Experimental UI is available with feature flags in LTS
    • Completed work
      • Build monitor plugin has been completely reworked to use Jenkins Design Library, announced in a blog post
      • Credentials plugin has been updated with this PR and necessary changes to tests, announced in a blog post
      • AWS global configuration has been updated with this PR
    • Needs review
      • Refine dialogs PR needs review
      • Refine ‘Users’ page in Manage Jenkins PR needs security review
      • Experimental App Bar API for jobs PR needs security review
    • Work to be done
      • Dashboard needs more work and discussion with users
        • Considering removing the “All” view - predict what you want to see
        • Show the builds interesting to you based on your history
          • Working well, home page shows several relevant jobs
          • Nice to demonstrate at the next UX
      • Manage Jenkins page is largely done, may be ready for July LTS
        • Not as wide changes in the other pages
        • Fall back to the existing UI
      • Build page is in progress
      • Job page will be demonstrated today
      • Warnings plugin changes has an open PR
      • Cloud stats plugin has an open draft PR
      • Role Strategy plugin
      • Matrix auth plugin
      • New extensible builds list for the job page
      • New Jenkins.io homepage
    • Experiments
      • New dashboard page
      • New build page
      • New job page
      • New Manage Jenkins UI
    • Community forum post per page, comments encouraged there
    • GitHub jenkinsci/sig-ux is a collecting location for issues
      • More general topics in this issue tracker
      • Core specific and plugin specific issues should be tracked in the issues in their repository
  • Plugin of the month - Pipeline Graph View
  • Redesign of jenkins.io
    • Branch “new-home-page” on Jan Faracik’s fork trying to resolve differences in appearance
    • Is there a design that can be used? Kris to check with Jan Faracik - early work
    • GSoC project proposed
  • Web UI work on Jenkins core - 38 open pull requests
    • Work in progress
      • Pull requests from frequent contributors
        • Use correct URLs from delete dialogs - PR (Markus Winter)
        • Allow to disable build history widget refresh in development mode - PR (Markus Winter)
        • Add top button for “Add parameter” and other hetero-lists - PR (Markus Winter)
        • Fix build history tooltip clipping - PR (Yen Cheng Lin)
      • Older pull requests from frequent contributors with disagreements
        • Introduce icon for jobs - PR (Daniel Krämer)
        • Add badges to build page - PR (Daniel Krämer)
      • Pull requests from new contributors
        • Allow viewing of gz compressed artifacts - PR (Brian Hinz)
        • Add abort support to FormChecker delayed checks - PR (Kevin Sailema)
        • Prevent long parameter values from overflowing the dialog - PR (Adarsh Singh)
        • Reduce empty space in repeatable elements - PR (Rashmi)
        • Fix search bar text from being selected - PR (Muhammad Salman)
        • Fix breadcrumb dropdown on smaller viewports - PR (Amogh Parmar)
        • Fix plugin manager ‘Enabled’ column sorting - PR (Himanshu Kumar)
        • Fix card overflow for queue and build containers - PR (Heller07)
        • Fix dropdown help icon layout - PR (Lakshya Bagani)
      • Changes requested
        • Search filter has been implemented - PR (Lakshya Bagani) - needs more review
      • Unresolved merge conflicts - 7 open - propose to close with a one week waiting period?
        • Fix clipping of authorization tables - PR (dhanush-raja-a)
        • Replace dismiss button with “X” - PR (Rahul-2006)
        • Remove the loading symbol when submenu is empty - PR (Lakshya Bagani)
        • System message rendering - PR (Karthik Bhandary)
        • Fix “copy from” creates new item instead of copying in Firefox - PR (ShirayukiRin)
        • Add optional side panels for node and load statistics - PR (Markus Winter)
  • AI, New Contributors, and Governance
  • cdCon 2026 at Open Source Summit May 18-19
    • Mark Waite is controller of ceremonies and has a 10 minute talk to share what’s coming in Jenkins
      • Lead themes
        • UI improvements
        • Bug bounty continues - funded by European Commission
      • Additional themes
        • Java upgrades continue - Java 21 and Java 25 fully supported
        • Platform updates continue - Intel, ARM, s390x, ppc64, adding RISC-V
        • Blue ocean deprecated beginning July 2026 (see CloudBees announcement)
        • Will remind attendees that compatibility still matters
      • Mark send email to Jan to ask for his insights
        • Build UI - frequently used page